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Enchantresses through Time and Space: Examining Feminine Agency and Narrative Resistance
from Camelot to Salem
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Isabelle Sungsil Lee
Access: Open access
Rescentment: Reclaiming the Olfactory Sense in Contemporary Asian Diaspora Literature
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Maya Juliette Le
Access: Open access

Nonprophets: a novel This record is embargoed.
- Embargo End Date: 2025-05-14
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Nathan Osiason Blum
Access: Embargoed
"Possessive gentleness": Insecure Attachments in American Literature
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Ella Pearl Crabtree
Access: Open access
- “‘Possessive Gentleness’: Insecure Attachments in American Literature” applies psychological attachment theory to works of American Literature. Each novel examined—Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1851), Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp (1856), and The Minister’s Wooing (1859) by Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Third Generation (1954) by Chester Himes, and The Bluest Eye (1970) by Toni Morrison—describes the forces behind insecure attachment relationships between child characters and their caregivers. The first chapter of this project focuses on Stowe’s anti-slavery novels. It argues that the institution of slavery is in conflict with Christianity in these works, because it impedes disinterestedly benevolent mothering and disrupts secure attachments. The second chapter analyzes The Third Generation, and suggests that colorism in the black community is the cause of insecure attachments in Himes’ work. The third and final chapter examines The Bluest Eye, and presents sympathy, as embodied by the novel’s narrator, as a potential remedy for insecure parent-child attachments. Together, these texts elucidate how societal forces (e.g. colorism, poverty) intrude upon the family structure and destabilize parent-child attachments. Optimistically, however, they also suggest that improved parent-child attachments might function as a vehicle of broader social change.

Errandsphere Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
- Restriction End Date: 2026-06-01
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Aida Muratoglu
Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community
Seasons Without Borders: the Ali Smith Quartet
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Claire M Burns
Access: Open access
- This project considers how the novels of contemporary Scottish author Ali Smith work to destabilize traditional constructions of temporal, formal, national, and gender borders. The motifs of the border and the border identity have been thematically pervasive in Scottish literary history, as reflected in the recurrence of the Scottish split identity. This thesis explores how the borders that have become essential to the construction of Scottish national literature, often relying on binaristic categorizations, have been disestablished in the contemporary era. Ali Smith’s novels, particularly the novels of her seasonal quartet, introduce forms and figures that highlight the instability of many of these borders, challenging fixed representations of the border identity. Through this focus on Scotland, Smith constructs a template for a consideration of national identity beyond the boundaries of Scotland, extending toward a more global sensibility.

Neptune City This record is embargoed.
- Embargo End Date: 2026-05-18
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Lily Randall
Access: Embargoed
Invisible Ailments: A Collection
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Jane L. Godiner
Access: Open access
- "Invisible Ailments" is a collection of short stories that trace the depth, breath, and sweeping range of lived experiences of people struggling with mental illness. While it is a work of fiction, the people in these stories might feel eerily familiar — to your friends, your family members, your loved ones, or, if you're brave enough to admit it, yourself.

"What's Outside the Window?": Evil, Literature, and Detection in Roberto Bolaño's Fiction This record is embargoed.
- Embargo End Date: 2026-05-18
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Andrew YH Chang
Access: Embargoed
This is What You Want: Stories
Date: 2017-05-01
Creator: Savannah Blake Horton
Access: Open access
- This is What You Want: Stories is a collection of nine stories exploring the role of humor in dark situations. It is a work of fiction.